Column: ESL students inspire with their dedication, commitment

Column: ESL students inspire with their dedication, commitment

Too often, immigrants appear in news coverage and social media not as people, but as problems to be managed, threats to be contained or statistics to be argued over. As a college English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor, I spend my days with immigrants who are working toward something profoundly American: education, opportunity and a better future for their families. Public conversations frequently reduce immigrants to abstractions rather t…